Overview

• Under the agreement, The Conservation Fund will sustainably manage the working redwood forest in Mendocino County, while Apple receives carbon credits generated by the forest’s growth.
• The project extends Apple’s Restore Fund, which launched with Goldman Sachs and Conservation International and now spans two dozen efforts on six continents, including a 2023 fund managed by Climate Asset Management and supplier backing from TSMC and Murata.
• Apple says it has surpassed 60 percent of its planned 75 percent emissions reduction from 2015 levels and is targeting removal of 9.6 million metric tons of CO2 per year by 2030 through high‑quality projects.
• Monitoring will include repeated measurements of marked trees’ diameter and height, and Apple announced new grants for Conservation International, the Jane Goodall Institute’s Roots & Shoots, and a Nature Conservancy effort to evaluate remote sensing tools for verification.
• The forest anchors habitat for hundreds of wildlife species and supports local economies, and The Conservation Fund frames the collaboration as a replicable model as 13 million acres of U.S. forests face risk by 2050.